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Patrons attending the play “Crazy for You” at Roger Rocka’s Dinner Theater were evacuated Saturday night after a water heater caused a small fire. Read comments

There was only a small window of time to take the photograph: It was August 2011, and Philip Levine was about to be named the 18th Poet Laureate of the United States. A Bee photographer scurried over to his Van Ness Avenue home in order to make the next day's paper. Read comments

There was only a small window of time to take the photograph: It was August 2011, and Philip Levine was about to be named the 18th Poet Laureate of the United States. A Bee photographer scurried over to his Van Ness Avenue home in order to make the next day’s paper. Read comments

The Central California Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will provide 30 spay and neuter surgeries for free Feb. 24 at the CCSPCA Adoption Center, 103 S. Hughes Ave. in Fresno. Read comments

Doug Campbell, 63, usually goes all out for his neighborhood’s annual Mardi Gras celebration in Fresno’s Tower District. Read comments

Fresno is turning its sewer farm into a drought-buster. Read comments

A federal judge in Fresno says that one faction of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians disobeyed an order he issued after Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino was closed in October, but he did not find the group in contempt. Read comments

A fire destroyed a mobile home near Selma on Tuesday morning and displaced two people. Read comments

A stee rebar form took shape at Fresno State Tuesday for a memorial that will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Read comments

Free food for a year? That’s a special promotion for a restaurant opening in Fresno this week. Learn more about that, as well as the world’s biggest ag equipment show and property acquisition for high-speed rail project in this quick list: Read comments